U2 Add Rarities, Live Tracks and B-Sides to Reissues

The reissues of U2's first three albums — Boy, October and War — will each contain discs full of rarities and live performances as well as B-sides from the era. Boy will be accompanied by three unreleased songs "Speed of Life," "Cartoon World" and "Saturday Night," along with a different mix of "I Will Follow." Live performances from the Hammersmith Palais and the Paradise Theater in Boston will join October, while War will feature the unreleased track "Angels Too Tied to the Ground" and a bunch of remixes of "New Years Day" and "Two Hearts Beat as One." All three deluxe editions will be out on July 22nd.

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Song Stories

“All Along the Watchtower”

The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 1968

Jimi Hendrix got hold of Bob Dylan's early John Wesley Harding tapes and in late 1967 recorded a version of "All Along the Watchtower" with the Experience in London. Dissatisfied with that first development, Hendrix brought those tapes with him to New York in early 1968 when he began work on Electric Ladyland. Eddie Kramer, Hendrix's engineer at the time, told Rolling Stone that Hendrix "was still looked upon by his basically white audience as the mammoth black guitar hero. There was a constant fight within him to expand himself." Hendrix's successful take on Dylan's work has long been recognized by the songwriter. "I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way," Dylan wrote in the liner notes to his Biograph box set. "Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it's a tribute to him in some kind of way."

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